An Empirical Study On Feminist Criminology: The Raising Of New Branch

Ishwarya A, Saveetha School of Law, Saveetha University

Priyanka S, Saveetha School of Law, Saveetha University

ABSTRACT

This paper deals with the feminist criminology-The raising of new branch. We contend that there is no standard system in women's activist criminology. Or maybe, there are a progression of methodological inclinations that women's activists receive as a methods for seeking after research addresses propelled by: the bits of knowledge of sex hypothesis; the requirement for social change; the advances made by post-positivist epistemologies; the significance of involvement in understanding wrongdoing and equity and; a pledge to separating the power relations characteristic in research through procedures of reflexivity. We give a diagram of ways to deal with research supported by women's activist criminologists. So as to feature progressing discusses and developing topics in women's activist technique we center around research that explores brutality against ladies. Four topics are included: intersectionality; the person in question/specialist polarity; respectability and examination and; the 'printed turn' in research. We substance out these topics through two cases thinks about dependent on our own examination on brutality against Filipino ladies and homophobic savagery against ladies. Women's activist criminology, as an outgrowth of the second flood of women's rights, grew up amid a time of significant change and political good faith. As a develop field, it presently occupies a social and political scene drastically changed and progressively described by the governmental issues of kickback. Given women's activist criminology's double spotlight on sex and wrongdoing, it is particularly situated to react to two center parts of the present backfire political plan: prejudice and sexism.

Keywords: Feminist criminology; feminist methodology; feminist research in crime; qualitative research; feminist epistemology.